33 Fragments Quotes for You to Enjoy

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. Derek Walcott

Love Stronger Fragments Took Vase Than Break Which Granted Whole Symmetry

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. Allan Bloom

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. William Gibson

Technology Impossible Live Fragments Bits Seemingly Operate Traces Without Leaving Personal Any Move Personal Information Information Meaningless Level

I have always wanted to make a series of films which would be like an 'emotional history' that conveys what it feels like to live through history as an experience rather than a grand story. It would be about the relationship between the tiny fragments and moments of personal experience, and the continual backdrop of big events. Adam Curtis

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The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments. Adrienne Mayor

War Great Events Other Fragments Months Poems Only Troy Least Continue Covered Survive Six Epic Iliad Two

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life. Alessandro Michele

Life Me Past Fragments Without

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. Bruce Beresford

Director Satisfied Fragments Until Same Again Shot Moments Film

In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups. Caterina Fake

Work Love Three Lost Fragments Everything Email Locally All My Work Photos Poems Computer Had Almost Ideas Got Doing Been Years Loss Friends Love Letters Stored Crashed Which Disk Sketches Hard Laptop Using Letters Two

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments. Christina Baker Kline

Mother Lost Few Enough Fragments Wear Hats Entwined House She Around Piled Yarn Still Leaving Were Years Up Orbit Interest Sweaters Then Suddenly Humans Started Needles

I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes. Darryl Pinckney

Black Starts Fragments Summer Had Over Pieces Wrote Because Around Years False Lot Very Quickly Sitting Notes

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production. David Fanning

Strength You Accidents Fall Research Fragments Interview Nine Nine Months Months Collected Collection Objects Footage Pieces Documentary Course Surface Stock Six Happenstance Movies Scripts Production Stand Large Found Extent

As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments. David Shields

Work Fragments Intimate Embarrassing More Gets Autobiographical Breaks

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context. Ellen Klages

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I am a writer of fragments. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting. Gunter Grass

You Together Memory Sometimes Remember Try Shifting Everybody Fragments Join Soon Knows How Fallible Precisely Story Certain

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. Jacques Ellul

Prayer History Together Creation Fragments Possible Shattered Makes Holds

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want. James Salter

Down Fragments Out Find Exactly Hoping Exactly What Imperfect Write Perhaps Trying Maybe Want View Keep Portions

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. Jonas Mekas

Videos Long Fragments Consist One Or Two Thousands Minutes Most Sketches Two

I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments. Junot Diaz

You Fragments Guess Out Hopelessly Just Realities Connected Fascinated Assemble

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time Become Fragments Ancient Modern Many Origin Works

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. Lars von Trier

Made Fragments Fact Tennis Had Like Without Balls Improvisation Improvised In Fact Plan Bricks Actor Play Rejected Need

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves. Lena Waithe

Writing Fragments Others See Story Might Themselves

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well. Paul Rand

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